NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan have taken their diplomatic war of words global with Pakistan dispatching its emissaries to lobby the world against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticizing Pakistan at the just-concluded Group of 20 summit in Hangzhou, China. India has targeted Pakistan over its support of terrorist groups (without mentioning Kashmir, which it has always maintained is a bilateral issue), while Pakistan has sought to make Kashmir a global issue. Twice in the past two days, Modi has slammed Pakistan as the epicenter of terrorism in the South Asian region, without naming the country. According to a Pakistan foreign office statement on Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s special envoy Syed Tariq Fatemi met Belgian foreign minister and deputy prime minister Didier Reynders and the secretary general in the Belgian foreign ministry, Dirk Achten. India says violence in the state is fomented by Pakistan and militant groups that it trains and sends into India, a charge Pakistan denies.

Source: Manila Times September 07, 2016 12:33 UTC